TOEIC Score Improvement Course: Part 5 Strategy🔥 No.3

To improve your TOEIC score, it is more important than anything else to earn solid points in "Part 5: Grammar"📝
Therefore, as part of this TOEIC score improvement course, I would like to focus on outputting content centered on "English Grammar" topics💚

We will thoroughly cover Part 5 strategies based on specific practice problems and their explanations!
Please make use of this as part of your English studies🔥

Review of the previous session🔖

Q1: Parts of Speech Question (Compound Noun)

The board of directors appointed Mr. Tom, the grandson of the company ＜ ＞, as the next CEO.

A: founder
B: foundation
C: found
D: founded

Mr. Tom and the phrase from 'the grandson' to the second comma are lined up with an appositive comma, and you can see that it isthe object of the verb 'appointed'📝
Also, from the context of the sentence, thenoun (A) founderis appropriate as it can form a compound noun following 'company' before the blank👍
(B): foundation (noun) 'establishment', (C): found (verb) 'to establish', (D): founded (past tense/past participle). Considering the meaning of the sentence, A is the correct answer.

Also, let's remember the terms 'board of directors',
'appoint A as B'
and 'CEO' (Chief Executive Officer).

English translation: The board of directors appointed Mr. Tom, who is the grandson of thecompany founder, as the next CEO.

Q2: Adverbs that emphasize the comparative degree

Some reviewers commented that the design of the new laptop computer is ＜ ＞ better than that of the previous model.

A: far
B: very
C: both
D: few

Since there is 'better', the comparative form of the adjective 'good', after the blank, it is expected thatan adverb that emphasizes the comparative degree will be inserted.
In this question,the adverb (A) faris appropriate📝
(B): very (adverb) 'very', (C): both (adjective) 'both', (D): few (adjective) 'few'.
※B could also be a candidate, but considering the meaning of the sentence, A is better💦
Let's also remember the terms 'reviewer', 'comment', and 'previous'.

English translation: Some reviewers commented that the design of the new laptop computer wasfarbetter than that of the previous model.

Q3: Appropriate tense for the main clause verb (Past Perfect)

At the Electronics Store, a number of shoppers ＜ ＞in line for PHG’s latest smartphone even before the doors opened.

A: have been waiting
B: are waiting
C: will be waiting
D: had been waiting

This is a question about choosing the appropriate tense for the verb in the main clause📝
The tense of the subordinate clause is'the doors opened', which is the past tense, and we should confirm that due to 'before', the content of the main clause—'a number of shoppers had been waiting in line for PHG's latest smartphone'—happened before the content of the subordinate clause—'the doors (of the electronics store) opened'💦
Therefore,expressing that something 'had been continuing to happen' from one point in the past until another point,the past perfect progressive (D) had been waiting is appropriate.

The other options are (A): have been waiting (present perfect progressive of 'wait'), (B): are waiting (present progressive), (C): will be waiting (future progressive), but considering the 'appropriate tense', only (D) works.

That is all for today's explanation!
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